Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
400-600 people are murdered in Chicago every year. Most of those deaths are around just a few neighborhoods. We have been told by our leaders that it is our responsibility to lock ourselves in our homes in order to save lives from this virus. If that is the guiding principal shouldn’t we lock down the neighborhoods that are responsible for most of these deaths?
This is great evidence that locking up criminals reduces crime. We should be locking up criminals, not releasing them, Kimmy Foxx.
Are our local pols shameless enough to point to this one-off lower crime number in the years ahead to justify their continued terrible policies?
You’d better believe it.